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City of Medicine - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Feb 1, 2022 - In 1843, a student at the “med school of the University of Pennsylvania,” as he called it in a letter to a friend in Boston, declared Philadelphia “decidedly...
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Moran Family of Artists - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Nov 1, 2024 - The Morans, a multi-generational family of American artists, lived and worked in Philadelphia during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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City of Firsts - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Oct 12, 2022 - The Convention and Visitors Bureau touts Philadelphia as “a city of firsts.” The Independence Hall Association lists five pages of “Philadelphia Firsts” on its...
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Athens of America - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Nov 14, 2022 - In the decades after American independence, the atmosphere of liberty in Philadelphia spawned an artistic spirit that earned this city its reputation as the...
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Ballet - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Philadelphia has a rich ballet history that spans centuries. Although initially not hospitable to dance, the city developed into an attractive destination for...
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Chester, Pennsylvania - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Apr 15, 2026 - 30 miles down the Delaware River from Philadelphia, the small but once industrially mighty city of Chester saw its fortunes shifted many times.
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Ceramics - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Mar 14, 2022 - Innovative ceramic makers and entrepreneurs in the Philadelphia region produced a spectrum of utilitarian pottery and refined luxury goods.
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Burlington County, New Jersey - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Aug 5, 2023 - Settled primarily by Quakers in the seventeenth century, Burlington County was a great site for commercial and agricultural development. Over time the area...
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Native Americans Archives - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
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Media, Pennsylvania - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Apr 15, 2026 - Media, Pennsylvania, was built on farmland in the 1850s as the new county seat of Delaware County. It is an early example of a planned community.
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Delaware County, Pennsylvania - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Apr 4, 2023 - Carved out of Chester County in 1789 (with the remainder of that county lying to its southwest), Delaware County long served as a distinct but close neighbor...
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Music Archives - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
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Greater Philadelphia - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Feb 1, 2022 - Civic boosters in the late nineteenth century adopted “Greater Philadelphia” as a phrase denoting aspirations for progress as well as way of describing the...
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Apr 21, 2026 - The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities.
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